Anne Tyler

With her 20th novel, "The Beginner's Goodbye," about to be released, Baltimore novelist Anne Tyler is already hard at work on her 21st — a "sprawling family saga that goes on and on and on" that she'll be writing backward, beginning with the ending. That way, Tyler explained in an interview broadcast on NPR on Friday morning, should she die before the book is finished, it could still be published. "Backwards, nobody would ever know whether you had reached the end you had planned," she told NPR's Lynn Neary. The interview, Tyler's first in 35 years, began with Tyler taking Neary on a quick tour of her beloved Roland Park, where many...

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